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On Monday, 6th February, Day 6 of Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month, CC got almost 10 minutes air time on BBC Radio Leeds!
Malcolm Robinson and Helen Morement were interviewed by Wes Butters on his morning programme that promises to "get West Yorkshire talking". Malcolm described his personal experience of CC, and both were able to mention AMMF and its work. A great awareness raising opportunity - m...

At AMMF we are doing all we can to raise awareness and to encourage and support research into cholangiocarcinoma. But we can’t do it without your help. There are several ways to donate – on line via AMMF’s Justgiving page, or by cheque, but now you can also donate by text message. Using JustTextGiving couldn’t be simpler.
Your message must include the code AMMF 12 followed by the amount you...

AMMF supporter, Marcella Smith, who lost her husband Stewart to CC just last September, has vowed to do all she can to help raise the awareness of this ruthless disease. Two days in to Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month, 2nd February, she did just that - listen to her moving interview on Annie Othen's programme on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire.
To hear the interview, click here - Marcella's inter...

Awareness Month got off to an excellent start with several press and radio interviews lined up, including one for the Daily Express.
AMMF supporter and campaigner, Malcolm Robinson, was interviewed by the Yorkshire Post, and it was a real boost to the campaign to have the article appear in that paper on 1st February. Many thanks to Malcolm for sharing his inspirational story.
To read the story, cl...

AMMF has now circulated a press release throughout the UK, announcing that this coming February is Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month, and launching the charity's new CChallenge for 2012. To download the press release, click here
AMMF press release_Jan12

Online survey: Improving outcomes for patients with advanced cancer
The Rarer Cancers Foundation has asked AMMF to help with an on line survey – they want to do all they can to support the NHS in ensuring that people with rarer and less common cancers have the best possible care and treatment. To do this, they need to know more about people’s experiences and what they value when they have advanced f...

AMMF is delighted to have become a member of Cancer52, the organization providing a “common voice for the less common cancers”.
Cancer52 is so named because 52% of cancer deaths in the UK are from the less common cancers (although in 2010 this proportion increased to 53%). Despite this figure, the less common cancers remain severely under represented and under funded across all areas, including polic...

AMMF was delighted to report a few months ago that it had been agreed with Imperial College that the charity would fund a Research Fellowship for a year.
Dr Abigail Zabron has now begun her research work and has written to AMMF introducing herself, describing what led her to embark on cholangiocarcinoma research, and outlining what she hopes to achieve. I’m sure we all wish her the very best with her r...

The following is a brief summary of Tyson and El-Serag’s paper reviewing scientific literature up to and including March 2011, entitled “Risk Factors for Cholangiocarcinoma”, which was recently published in the journal Hepatology.
(The following technical translation of the published paper has been prepared for us by Dr Ruth Corrigan MA (Cantab), and a link to download the full paper can be f...